This
reality pains me more than anyone can understand. I am the son of
a career U.S. Marine. My grandfather served and earned a Purple Heart
in WWI. My father served in WWII and Korea, and died in service. My
brother served in the U.S. Army in Desert Storm. I served as a U.S.
Army officer during Vietnam.

War
is hell and it scrambles men’s and women’s minds. From
the Vietnam War alone, over 200,000 once healthy men committed suicide
after coming back from Nam in 1975. Hundreds of thousands more suffered
broken marriages and descended into drugs and alcohol. The expectations
for suicides from Iraq and Afghanistan run into the 150,000 range.
Those suicides can be based on the lunacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson,
Richard Nixon and now, George Bush and Barack Obama.

For
the record, I personally know Peter Gadiel the father of a young boy
who died in one of the twin towers on 9/11. His pain continues today
because he has battled the U.S. government to stop illegal immigration
and secure our borders for 10 year, but they have not. The incompetence
or the “on purpose” path of supporting illegal immigration
as well as relentless legal immigration shows a grand design to destroy
the sovereignty and culture of our country by some very powerful elites
at the top of the power structure.

My
heart goes out to every American and non-American that suffered in
the 9/11 massacre. This past 9/11 Sunday, America mourned. I mourned.

I
love America with every cell in my body. At the same time, I urge
a reality check to Americans as to open door for 9/11. Nothing in
this universe or in this world happens without a cause. We live in
a cause and effect world. Something or some act causes a corresponding
reaction.

A
bit of history from the United States of America

When
the European settlers came to this country, they slaughtered the Native
Americans with superior, mechanized violence. It proved deplorable
yet humanity tends toward self-aggrandizement. Conquering human tribes
always write history in their own best interest. They (our forefathers)
grouped the Indians into detention camps called “reservations.”
Our forefathers took away their freedoms, cultures, customs, languages,
religions and ways of life. We introduced them booze and small pox.
We broke treaty after treaty with the Indians. We massacred men, women
and children. Read Trail of Tears, Sand Creek Massacre and Bury
My Heart at Wounded Knee if you want to appreciate a really in-depth
understanding of white men’s violence toward Native Americans.

They
have not recovered. They live on welfare, on reservations, drink endless
booze, live on hopelessness and suffer domestic violence as they attempt
and fail to adjust to the white man’s world. We also turned
their pristine continent into a chemical, carbon, paved, polluted
and littered trash pit. Look them in the eyes and one can feel their
emptiness. How can we look in the mirror ourselves and feel nothing?

During
Harry Truman’s administration, his advisors cooked up the idea
that we should halt communism by fighting in Korea. We jumped in to
kill hundreds of thousands while suffering 33,000 deaths ourselves—in
a conflict that we had no business entering over 10,000 miles away
from our shores. The Korean War killed countless tens of thousands
of people and did absolutely nothing to move the world toward peace.
North and South Korea today stand as ardent enemies with no solution.

When
Dwight D. Eisenhower finished his two terms as president, he warned
about the Military Industrial Complex. Quite simply, that is a group
of men and organizations that feed on wars, and as we have seen, they
create and engineer wars. We American citizen did not heed Ike’s
words.

Thus,
the U.S. Military Industrial Complex created the Vietnam War. It did
not create it to make America safer; those elites created it to make
more money and wield their power. We waged it for 10 years because
that’s how long those engineers could manipulate us. It would
still be going if not for the “reaction” of the college
students screaming, “Hell no, we won’t go!”

The
architect of Vietnam, Robert McNamara, before he died at 92 a year
ago, wrote Fog of War. He admitted that, “Vietnam was
a mistake.” His mistake killed over 2.1 million Vietnamese and
poisoned their country with Agent Orange. It still causes ecological
mayhem and birth defects throughout Vietnam in 2011. Since we don’t
see or feel the consequences, we feel immune to our causing them.

The
Gulf of Tonkin fraud provided the pretense for the Vietnam War. But
that’s all it took for Johnson to start bombing and sending
53,267 men to their violent deaths with another 350,000 amputated
or maimed emotionally. The “Silent Majority” felt no culpability
for the deaths of 2.1 million Vietnamese any more than it felt culpability
for the massacres of Native Americans. When might we understand that
we are not the final “father figure” of the planet?

Then,
in the early 1990s, we stuck our noses into Kuwait and Iraq. We killed
a few thousand people with our firepower. We lost just short of 400
kids. At that time, Osama bin Laden warned us to leave Muslim lands.
Several other imams demanded that we leave Muslim lands or face jihad.
We didn’t believe them because we felt immune to the law of
cause and effect.

In
1993, Muslims tried to bomb the World Trade Towers at the basement
level. They failed while bin Laden again warned us to leave Muslim
lands. We still didn’t listen in 1993. We do not listen in 2011
at what costs to our young men and women? Answer: 4,200 American soldier
(kids) deaths and 42,000 maimed.

On
September 11, 2001, not Afghanistan and not Iraq, but 17 of the 19
men from Saudi Arabia hijacked our airplanes and flew them into the
towers, Pentagon and a Pennsylvania cornfield. Some very cogent proof
shows that 9/11 was an inside job and that someone in high places
concocted the entire terrorist act to get us into another war. Building
#7 collapsed because it was rigged with explosives.

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From
there we have bombed and killed tens of thousands of “insurgents”
in that goat herder country of Afghanistan that lacks a single fighter
jet or helicopter. Isn’t it amazing how the finest army in the
world can’t conquer a bunch of illiterate goat herders and poppy
seed growers?

Then,
as usual, the Military Industrial Complex boiled up “Weapons
of Mass Destruction,” which allowed George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney to start bombing a country that did not have any weapons of
mass destruction. They used and made a fool out of General Colin Powell.
Subsequently, Bush/Cheney killed hundreds of thousands as they created
2.5 million refugees and contaminated Iraq’s soil and water
with depleted uranium “shock and awe” bombs. I charge
George W. Bush and coward Dick “five draft deferments from Vietnam”
Cheney with crimes against humanity. Their total arrogance in the
face of Muslim leaders’ warnings borders on Hitler’s megalomania.

In
the meantime, Bush and Cheney stroll around their mansions with endless
money while our precious, though naïve volunteer soldier/kids
walk around with plastic arms, legs and other body parts. Not only
that, 100,000 combat soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan will commit
suicide in the coming years as well as suffer horrible broken families
and orphaned children. Of special note, one young man this past week
earned the Medal of Honor while millions more earned a PTSD diagnosis.
(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is another term for having your brains
scrambled for life.)

We
mourn that dreadful moment on 9/11, yet our own government’s
actions and the Military Industrial Complex caused 9/11. Today, we
harbor over 572,000 military personnel on over 700 bases in over 100
countries around the world. In effect, we foist our standing army
into every corner of the Earth. We push our empire onto everybody
else’s country without merit and without reason.

The
results: as a nation, we’re broke, in-debt and spiritually vacuous.
We suffer 14 million unemployed while spending $12 billion monthly
for two wars of 10 years. Our schools turn out illiterate kids and
our country suffers from insidious malaise such as “flash mobs.”

Our
Congress features a 12 percent approval rating and our president suffers
from a 46 percent approval rating, worst in the modern era. He has
failed on every pledge to get Americans back to work and bring peace
to our country. Obama’s Nobel Peace prize is a contradiction
as he added to and lengthened the war in Afghanistan. His floundering
represents our floundering. What could that $12 billion monthly war
bill do for our citizens within our country? Plenty! We have spent
over $1 trillion blowing up two ancient countries.

As
you now appreciate, 9/11 didn’t occur out of the ether. By our
apathy and refusal to listen to Muslim demands to leave their countries,
our government and the Military Industrial Complex caused 9/11. We’re
accountable because we supported Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and
Iraq with our silence and apathy.

Taking
responsibility powers change for a more positive outcome. Doing nothing
as we citizens have done for 50 years—allows the Military Industrial
Complex to continue without pause.

How
do we stop our Congress, presidents and the Military Industrial Complex
from creating and starting more wars?

1.
We need term limits to stop the good old boy network that allows men
like Mark Udall, Orrin Hatch, John McCain and Charles Schumer to languish
in office for decades, accomplishing little as politicians.

3.
We must elect presidents that honor the Constitution instead of emotions,
hunches or other indolent manners of leadership that start wars.

4.
We citizens must cease supporting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with
our apathetic complicity.

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5.
We must abandon our ethnocentric arrogance for a 21st century integrity
that understands that all humans matter in their own countries—versus
our long standing superior view of America’s power.

May
this be America’s time to move toward authentic power with equitable,
moral and spiritual actions—understanding that we are part of
the human family. To maintain our current imperialism will invite
another 9/11.

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In 1993,
Muslims tried to bomb the World Trade Towers at the basement level. They
failed while bin Laden again warned us to leave Muslim lands. We still
didn’t listen in 1993. We do not listen in 2011 at what costs to
our young men and women? Answer: 4,200 American soldier (kids) deaths
and 42,000 maimed.